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authorAndrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>2002-12-03 19:32:10 +0000
committerAndrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>2002-12-03 19:32:10 +0000
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2002-12-03 Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
* NEWS: Mention Daniel Jacobowitz's multi-threaded shared library patch.
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@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@ The GNU Source-Level Debugger''.
*** Changes in GDB 5.3:
+* GNU/Linux shared library multi-threaded performance improved.
+
+When debugging a multi-threaded application on GNU/Linux, GDB now uses
+`/proc', in preference to `ptrace' for memory reads. This may result
+in an improvement in the start-up time of multi-threaded, shared
+library applications when run under GDB. One GDB user writes: ``loads
+shared libs like mad''.
+
* ``gdbserver'' now supports multi-threaded applications on some targets
Support for debugging multi-threaded applications which use